Compression Stroke after verifying TDC

If you can get a socket and breaker bar on the damper bolt from the drivers side, you can remove number one plug and only the number one plug and turn the motor clockwise by hand yourself once you are 50 or so degrees before TDC on number one (timing marks approaching numbers on the timing chain cover). As you turn the engine over you should be able to hear the air pushing out when you are on the compression stroke. If you are not on compression the rushing air sound will not be there.

After trying all the methods and getting use to the sounds the engine makes when manually rotating, I found this the simplest way and avoid taking the cover off.